Matthew Beveridge

Matthew Beveridge
Born	March 18, 1975 (1975-03-18) (age 36) Toronto, ON, CAN
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	174 lb (79 kg; 12 st 6 lb)
Position	Forward
Shot	Left
Played for	Newcastle Vipers Manchester Phoenix
Playing career	1996–2007

Matthew Beveridge (born March 18, 1975 in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player, who currently coaches for Lucas Miller's Hi-Performance Hockey in Brampton, Ontario. Although drafted into the OHL by the Peterborough Petes, Beveridge's senior professional career was kick started with his move to the United Kingdom in 1996, where he would play for the Whitley Warriors, a team once coached by Mike Babcock. At British National League level, Beveridge would excel and in his first season totalled 100 points in just 36 games.

This productivity saw him move to Germany for the 1997/98 term, which he would spend as an ESC Dorfen player in the German second division. Once again Beveridge would score points easily, with 68 in just 50 games. He would return to the U.K. the following season and would once again grace the BNL, although this time with the Peterborough Pirates. His points ratio of greater than a point per game would help the Pirates into the post season. A further move within the BNL would follow in the summer of 2000, this time to the Paisley Pirates. Beveridge's productivity continued, this time with 48 points in 34 games.

Despite this, the Pirates failed to make the post-season and so Beveridge left for the Invicta Dynamos of the recently founded EPL. Beveridge would spend three prolific seasons in Gillingham, scoring 252 points. This prompted a chance at the higher BNL level again, with Beveridge moving north to the former ISL team the Newcastle Vipers. Through the 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons, Beveridge would again be a leading scorer for the Vipers.

As one of the leading BNL teams, the Vipers were invited to join the newly formed EIHL in 2005/06. At this higher level, Beveridge would score 25 points in 44 games and was unable to match his previous scoring rate. This led to the Vipers releasing him in the summer of 2006. His signature was quickly snapped up by the Manchester Phoenix, icing in their debut season in the EIHL. Beveridge would play just three games for the Phoenix however, before re-joining Newcastle mid-season.

He failed to settle however, despite scoring 5 points in the 9 games in which he featured and another mid-season move would follow, this time to the Sheffield Scimitars, the EPL team of the Sheffield Steelers organisation. Beveridge would make just one appearance before moving on again however, this time to the Bracknell Bees, where he would total a remarkable 61 points in 24 games, a ratio of almost three points per game.

At the end of the 2006/07 season, Beveridge announced his retirement from the playing side of the sport, and returned home to Ontario. Here he would find work as a coach for an ice hockey school in Brampton.

Career stats

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1996-97	Whitley Warriors	BNL		36	43	57	100	16		-	-	-	-	-
1997-98	ESC Dorfen	Ger. 2		50	31	37	68	32		-	-	-	-	-
1998-99	Peterborough Pirates	BNL		30	8	23	31	16		6	2	3	5	2
1999-00	Paisley Pirates	BNL		34	14	34	48	12		-	-	-	-	-
2000-01	Invicta Dynamos	EPL		30	41	47	88	38		-	-	-	-	-
2001-02	Invicta Dynamos	EPL		26	25	34	59	10		-	-	-	-	-
2002-03	Invicta Dynamos	EPL		38	46	59	105	34		-	-	-	-	-
2003-04	Newcastle Vipers	BNL		36	18	32	50	32		-	-	-	-	-
2004-05	Newcastle Vipers	BNL		34	10	30	40	24		-	-	-	-	-
2005-06	Newcastle Vipers	EIHL		44	10	15	25	22		-	-	-	-	-
2006-07	Manchester Phoenix	EIHL		3	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2006-07	Newcastle Vipers	EIHL		9	4	1	5	30		-	-	-	-	-
2006-07	Sheffield Scimitars	EPL		1	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2006-07	Bracknell Bees	EPL		24	28	33	61	52		-	-	-	-	-
Career Totals				395	278	404	682	318		6	2	3	5	2

• Includes league/post season games only, correct up to 15/01/09

External links

• Matthew Beveridge's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database
• Matthew Beveridge – player profile and career stats at European Hockey.Net
• Lucas Miller Hockey School Staff Page, Lucas Miller's Hi-Performance Hockey Official Website
• Matt Beveridge Profile, Sportsbase Website

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Name	Beveridge, Matthew
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Date of birth	March 18, 1975
Place of birth	Toronto, ON, CAN
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